Jana Arbanová

"But people should come around really quickly. Very fast. Because it's so dangerous, the situation has never been such since the change of regime. Calling for the old orders and voting for what used to be, just because someone promises me to have more money or that migrants won't come here or I don't know what, that's bollocks and such easy promises ... But firstly, when something happens, no one will protect us at all. It will be: save yourself if you can. And the people, they were used to it, and I'd like to say this idea: when forty years a nation is actually being led in belief that lying, stealing and cheating are normal, it must naturally show itself several generations later, because half of the nation did it. They stole, lied, cheated, and these people are, as I say, their posthumous children, I'm not ashamed to say. And the other half of the nation, which was afraid or needed to survive, they kept their mouth shut and were brought up in it and raised their children the same way. Be quiet, hold your tongue to survive, to be admitted to school, so that you don't have trouble doing this or that. The one who didn´t hold their tongue went to serve time."

"When my father was involved in this, they [uncle and aunt] had little Bohušek just born. And my uncle told me: 'We were so afraid of my brother when he came [and said]: Kill the pig! We are leading people across the border, we need meat, food. We shut the door in his face.' He posed a threat to his family. He thought he would change the world head first. He was quite active and fighting, brave."